Dismantle Weapons of Mass Deception

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How about doing this nation wide? Don't get mad, get even! :<) March 2, 2003 Fed-Up Viewers Say, “No More Lies!” People Smash Their TVs at NBC Studios WASHINGTON, DC - Early Sunday morning, a group of disgruntled television viewers calling themselves “Meet The People” disowned their television sets in front of NBC studios to protest the pro-war media bias prevalent in Sunday morning talk shows. They then proceeded to smash the sets, under a banner that screamed, “Dismantle Weapons of Mass Deception.”   Click here to view photos: http://dc.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/metafiles/nbc_aftermath.jpg http://images.indymedia.org/imc/washingtondc/nbc_aftermath2.jpg http://dc.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/metafiles/nbc_aftermath3.jpg One television smasher, Noah Hypocrisy, told reporters that he was fed-up with the invasion of the military-industrial-media complex in his life, especially in light of the impending war on Iraq: “In the United States and other Western powers, the corporate-owned media depend on the military for information, accepting what military officers at the Pentagon or the White House spinners offer as undeniable fact.” “I’m not that gullible, and I’m mad as hell at what I’m seeing on my television set!” Hypocrisy said, in between hammer strokes with what seemed to be a Titleist golf pitching wedge. Another disenchanted viewer, Louisville Slugger in hand, lamented the heavy political biases she observes in the mainstream media: “In 2001, NBC Nightly News, ABC World News Tonight, and CBS Evening News interviewed U.S. sources who were 92% white, 85% male, and 75% Republican,” cried Ceci Truth. “How objective is that?!!!” Timed for the taping of NBC’s Sunday morning talk show “Meet the Press,” Meet the People barricaded the Nebraska Avenue entrance to the studios with a motley collection of their former television sets. Video of the dismantling will be available today at www.dc.indymedia.org . The People were determined that this was only the start. “We won’t stop here, and we encourage other thinking people to do similar actions. If the war on Iraq begins, we aren’t going to sit stupidly in our living rooms and accept the lies the corporate media try to feed us.” “We plan to seek out other weapons of mass deception: newspaper, radio, and other television studios. As their propaganda tries to drown out the truth, our level of disgust and resistance will escalate!”   BEWARE THE MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL-MEDIA COMPLEX....... http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=53342&group=webcast I'm The Slime I am gross and perverted I'm obsessed 'n deranged I have existed for years But very little has changed I am the tool of the Government And industry too For I am destined to rule And regulate you I may be vile and pernicious But you can't look away I make you think I'm delicious With the stuff that I say I am the best you can get Have you guessed me yet? I am the slime oozin' out From your TV set You will obey me while I lead you And eat the garbage that I feed you Until the day that we don't need you Don't go for help...no one will heed you Your mind is totally controlled It has been stuffed into my mold And you will do as you are told Until the rights to you are sold That's right, folks.. Don't touch that dial Well, I am the slime from your video Oozin' along on your livingroom floor I am the slime from your video Can't stop the slime, people, lookit me go Frank Zappa, 1973, "Overnite Sensation" The Revolution Will Not Be Televised